About Gretchen
Gretchen Landry is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Louisiana with 15 years of experience. She brings a background in medical social work and practical knowledge of how illness and life stress affect emotions and daily functioning. Her approach feels warm and interactive.
She listens first and then helps people figure out clear, manageable steps forward. Sessions focus on where someone is now and what they want to change next.
How Gretchen works
Gretchen uses straightforward talk, practical tools, and reflection. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to help people identify values and build habits that match those values. She often works with stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship strain.
Parenting questions, family-of-origin issues, adoption and foster care matters, and caregiver stress are also part of her practice. Gretchen also supports people facing chronic illness, cancer, end-of-life concerns, and the emotional impact of disability or long-term pain. She helps with coping during major life changes, self-esteem struggles, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Her sessions are practical and collaborative. She encourages small experiments, clearer communication, and skills you can use between meetings. People can expect a steady, compassionate guide who focuses on real-world change.
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What Gretchen works with
The areas below are the ones Gretchen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. In online sessions that can mean setting concrete at-home exercises and checking progress between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear, practical techniques like behavioral experiments and skill practice that transfer well to video or phone sessions. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and relies on active listening and empathy to help people feel heard and discover their own solutions; that approach works in any session format where open conversation is possible.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then try methods that fit those needs. Sessions can shift over time so the plan matches changing circumstances and outcomes.
Online therapy offers flexibility and several ways to stay connected. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, quick skill reminders, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules.
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